When the 35-year-old walked out of Sears in Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw Township with her three children, she saw a young woman sitting on a couch, holding her abdomen and moaning.

“I said, “Ma’am, do you need anything?’ ” Farrell said.

Chasity Davis, 19, of Saginaw was in labor about three weeks early, and the baby wasn’t waiting.

“It was very exciting, but at the same time I wasn’t expecting to ever have my baby at the mall,” Davis said.

Davis said she had felt contractions early in the morning Thursday, but they were small enough that she went on with her day. She was at the mall when she felt the contractions growing stronger, and she said she breathed through them.

Davis said she took a seat on the couch by Sears and yelled for help because she knew the baby was coming very soon. People came up and offered her assistance.

“You could see the baby moving,” Farrell said. “She was having contraction after contraction.”

Rainbow, a women’s clothing store, provided blankets to give Davis privacy and to wrap the baby, and a nail salon gave Farrell and Dawn Gombar of Freeland rubber gloves.

Farrell, who has no medical training, got on the phone with a Mobile Medical Response dispatcher.

“It happened so quickly,” Farrell said. “It was amazing, the dispatch just walked me right through it.”

Davis said she told them to do what they needed to do.

“They told me, ‘Breathe, honey, breathe,’ ” Davis said, “and when I had the baby I started crying, and they said, 'Don’t cry, you did a good job.' There was so much excitement in that mall.”

With the help of the strangers, Davis gave birth to a healthy boy, Devin Michael Davis, who is 6 pounds. His father is Dorian Mason of Saginaw. Farrell helped swipe the baby’s mouth out, and just when he started to cry, paramedics walked in.

“They were working like actual nurses,” Davis said. “I was so thankful for them.”

Farrell has a social work degree. She described Davis’ poise and composure as amazing.

“She never screamed. She was calm through the whole thing,” Farrell said. “She kept everyone calm.”

Rainbow Manager Lenora Baase said the birth went quickly, lasting about a half hour, and attracted a crowd.

“It was scary,” she said, “especially when they said the baby wasn’t breathing at first.”

Farrell’s children were nearby throughout the birth. She said she had to laugh because her daughters, ages 10 and 6, told her they have decided to stick with their aunt’s plan — no kids.

The gravity of the situation didn’t hit Farrell until after it was over, she said.

“Then you get shaky. You were hugging people you never met before because of what you went through,” she said. “It’s amazing what people can do when they work together.”

Davis said she is thankful for the people who helped her and her son.

“I’m just happy it was over,” she said. “I was just happy with the deliverers I had, just thankful for the people who were there.”